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that interchange before development at higher dens~ty occurs. Office/commercial areas are designated in this subarea by four large areas and three nodes. The four large areas, or general commercial areas, are the King's Grant interchange, the Poplar Tent interchange, the Pitts School/U.S. 29 area, and the area along U. S. 29 and Morehead Road west of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. With the exception of the last one, all of these already exist in some form or are planned. Each of the existing areas should continue to develop, and redevelop, over time. The exception area, that across t:rom the Speedway, has some existing commercial development, but is predominantly mobile home residential at this time. The eff_ect of the Speedway operations, especially its use on a daily basis, should gradually make this part of the County a less desirable place to live and more desirable place to locate a business. The three nodes of commercial use identify areas of shopping and service opportunities. At the Weddington/Pitts School and Poplar Tent/Harris intersections, the commercial nodes will be serving the more immediate community areas. The node shown at N.C. 73 and Poplar Tent, however, indicates the projected use of this intersection for a general shopping center type development that would serve a larger part of both Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties. The industrial areas shown on the Future Land Use Map are those that are existing, planned or most appropriate for industry rather than another nonresidential use. The areas designated as industrial are all located along or near major roads, i.e. 1-85, U.S. 29 and the proposed King's Grant Parkway. The only exceptions are that part of the King's Grant project that is off Pitts School Road and the Predrickson Motor Expre. ss facility. Existing industrial in this area is predominantly rock quarries and uses related to them. The quarries offer unique problems in that major reclamation is required once extraction is complete to allow the property to be used again, and even with reclamation reuse is limited. Because of this, the operating facilities are shown as industrial, but those for which extraction has ceased are shown as future employment areas to indicate that the reclamation must be properly completed. Much of the industrial that is shown are areas that are planned but do not yet exist. These are the Concord Regional Airport wl-dch is under construction and the King's Grant mixed use development. Both of these projects are well under way, and the completion in the next two to three years of the airport and the King's Grant interchange and parkway should have a profound effect on the area. Ultimately this should be a mixed industrial and manufacturing corridor extending from the University Research Park. There is one area shown as industrial that is currently residential. This is along Poplar Tent at Woodhaven Road. The designation of industrial is due to the location near 1-85 and other industrial uses. It is not intended that the residential uses cease to exist, rather it is shown asindustria] to indicate that should the land use change the most appropriate future use would be industrial. The final projected land use category is lucre employment. As discussed previously, these are areas that will be most appropriately nonresidential. There are two employment areas shown adjacent to the airport. The first of these is to the west of the facility along Derita Road. This is designated as an employment zone because of the expected effect of the airport and its entrance onto Derita. The shading indicates that the employment zone should include both sides of Derita Road, but it is important that any nonresidential use on the west side of the road have its orientation and access towards Derita Road and the airport. The second area is that property along Ivey Cline Road and north of the airport. The use of some of this property will be limited by flight path restrictions, but certainly where the property can be used it should be nonresidential. Other areas shown as future employment are affected mainly by the interstate, industrial uses, and past use of the property. Some of these areas are along the interstate at Goodman and Pitts School Roads. The properties are affected negatively by noise and positively by proximity to the interstate and other industrial uses. As services become available, these areas will most certainly develop with some nonresidential use. The areas affected by past use are the sites of two non-operational quarries off Poplar Tent Road near Shelton Road. Because of their past use, these sites are not attractive for anything but non- residential use. There is extra concern about the development of these properties because some reclamation will be necessary and because they are adjacent to residential areas. Any development plan will need to WESTERN AREA PLAN DRAFT 4 PAGE